Lemma: ā (ind)

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Meanings

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Occurrences

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Occurrences in chapters with topics

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Topic	Frequency
Indra	827
Agni	546
agniṣṭoma	387
Soma	274
Aśvins	256
Viśve devāḥ	183
Soma sacrifice	162
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha	128
Maruts	121
animal sacrifice, paśubandha	101
Sacrifice, yajña	94
Varuṇa	92
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice	81
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites	75
Grammar	67
marriage, wedding	66
agnyādhāna, agnyādheya	65
Mitra	64
penance, prāyaścitta	63
agnicayana	60
prāyaścitta	59
Uṣas	56
Vāta, Vāyu, wind	55
upanayana, initiation	54
Brideship and marriage	54
for material success, riches, wealth, prosperity	52
Sūrya, Savitṛ, sun	52
healing rituals, against diseases	50
mahāvrata	48
aśvamedha, hayamedha	48
house building, correct residence, śālākarman, vastukarman	45
birth, pregnancy	42
ṣaḍaha	42
Vedic hymns, śastras	41
against enemies, armies, weapons	41
water, rain	38
kāmyeṣṭi	36
sacrificial post, yūpa	35
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca	35
ekāha	35
pravargya	32
rājasūya	30
Sarasvatī, Vāc, speech	30
for long life, longevity, old age	29
for political power	29
Āpri hymn	28
vājapeya	28
for protection, safety, and luck	27
niṣkevalya śastra	26
against demons, rakṣas, evil spirits	26
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism	26
agnihotra	25
cow	24
pregnancy	24
against sorcery	24
study, śiṣya, adhyāya	24
dīkṣā	24
Pūṣan	23
for success, authority	23
Bṛhaspati	23
chandoma	22
daṇḍa, punishment	21
raising the yūpa	21
twelve-day Soma rite, dvādaśāha	20
Police	20
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra	19
vrata	19
punarādheya, punarādhāna	19
atirātra	18
for love, love charms	18
manas	18
Rudra	18
Ṛbhus	18
brahman priest, brahmatva	18
(Im-)purity	18
for cattle, cows	17
prātaranuvāka	17
saṃskāras	17
Agni Vaiśvānara	17
omina, presigns, nimittas, adbhuta, omen	17
stotriyavikāra	16
abhiplava	16
Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya	15
nāmakaraṇa, nāmakarman	15
vrātya	14
sattra	14
upasad	14
for luck, happiness, well-being, good fortune	14
ukhya	14
returning the mind, manas of a person	14
āhavanīya	14
sexuality	14
Cosmogony (gen.)	13
vaśā	13
Ādityas	13
against death, Nirṛti	12
Kashmirian Shivaism	12
kāmyapaśubandha, kāmya paśu	12
Vṛtra and Indra	12
śrāddha	12
ukthya	12
śūlagava	12
against rivals	11
paribhāṣā, general rules	11
sava	11
sāman	11
Mahābhārata	11
uktha	11
cāturmāsya	11
amulets	11
Vṛtra	11
prāṇa etc.	11
sacrificial fire	10
against bad omina and presigns	10
godāna	10
daśahotra	10
third pressing, tṛtīyasavana	10
errors, mistakes in sacrifice	10
prayāja	10
bahiṣpavamāna, out-of-doors laud	10
Brahmaṇaspati	9
Yama	9
consecration	9
bali	9
for the birth of sons	9
sorcery	9
Vedic metres in sacrifice	9
for battle fury	9
long live, āyus	9
Pitṛ worship, pitṛyajña	9
cūḍākaraṇa	9
soma graha	9
brahmacarya	9
mahābhiṣeka	9
sutyā	9
altar, vedi	9
for a king	9
King, rājanīti	9
āśrama	8
pṛṣṭha	8
mantra	8
Yoga	8
prātaḥsavana	8
somakraya, -vikraya, buying Soma	8
apavargya	8
midday sacrifice, mādhyandina, mādhyaṃdinasavana	8
annaprāśana, prāśanakarman	8
midday pavamāna	8
piṇḍapitṛyajña	8
nirūḍhapaśubandha	8
pravara, choosing the priest	8
gavām ayana, gavāmayana	8
Materia medica	7
River deities	7
aponaptrīya	7
kṛcchra	7
Pashupata Shaivism	7
varṇas, castes	7
agnyupasthāna	7
grahagrahaṇa	7
travelling, making a journey	7
against serpents, snakebites	7
Dharmaśāstra	7
for children, offspring, progeny	7
sīmantonnayana	7
puṃsavana	7
Lexicography	7
Medicine	7
ṣoḍaśin	7
ātman	7
Aditi	6
Apsaras	6
against evil	6
Shivaism, Śiva	6
dadhigharma	6
Pārvatī	6
dānastuti	6
for potency	6
Bhakti	6
alms, bhikṣā	6
Agni Gārhapatya, domestic fire	6
micro-macro cosmos speculation	6
Kṣatriya	6
samāvartana	6
eating, food, anna	6
war	6
snāna, bathing	6
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya	6
arghya	6
svaru	6
ekāṣṭakā	6
for prestige, influence	5
priest, ṛtvij	5
saṃdhyā, twilight worship	5
mṛtyusava	5
Kaśyapa	5
prauga śastra	5
puruṣa, primeval man	5
śravaṇākarman	5
anatomy, human body	5
āptoryāman	5
cātvāla	5
arrow	5
for sufficient food	5
udaka ritual	5
Astronomy	5
Genealogies	5
Gandharva	5
Reduplication	5
Accents	5
dharma	5
ghost, monster, demon	5
good behaviour	5
dakṣiṇā	5
Time	5
Asceticism, tapas	5
Śrī, Lakṣmī	5
Viśvāmitra	5
Trita and his brothers	5
gambling	5
Criminal law	4
ācamana	4
māsiśrāddha	4
Therapy	4
prasthita libation, prasthitahoma	4
sāyaṃprātarhoma, sāyamāhuti, prātarāhuti	4
botany, plants	4
for intelligence, wisdom	4
paridhi enclosings	4
deities of the moon, nights	4
anadhyāya, interrupting the Veda study	4
vapā, omentum, Netzhaut	4
sautrāmaṇī	4
Gaṅgā, Ganges	4
aptoryāman	4
jyotiṣṭoma	4
caturviṃśa day	4
Apāṃ Napāt	4
aṣṭakā	4
Zoology	4
āgrayaṇa	4
against poison, venom	4
utsarga, utsarjana, dismissal	4
Liberation, mokṣa, release	4
Brahmin	4
jātakarman	4
odanasava	4
(mythical) interpretation of the agnicayana	4
bṛhaspatisava	4
fast, upavāsa, upavasatha	4
interpretation of individual hymns or stanzas	4
maitrāvaruṇa	3
Mahāyāna	3
poison, antidotes	3
rebirth, transmigration	3
ājya hymns	3
human sacrifice, puruṣamedha	3
Language	3
fever, jvara, takman	3
against dangers, difficult situations	3
udgītha	3
praṇayana	3
(handing over the) daṇḍa	3
upākaraṇa, upākarman, start	3
begging, bhikṣu, bhikṣā	3
āpyāyana	3
Palmistry	3
Agriculture	3
Women	3
war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras	3
purohita, house priest	3
odana	3
bricks	3
nakṣatras	3
anuyāja, after-offering	3
for water and rain	3
Candra, Candramas, moon	3
agārapraveśa, entering the house	3
trirātra	3
measuring the vedi, vedivimāna	3
linguistic speculation	3
brahman	3
stotriyā	3
karman doctrine	3
Tvaṣṭṛ	3
strophes used in sacrifice	3
Buddha's life	3
Prajāpati and his daughter	3
acchāvāka	3
somaparivahaṇa, śakaṭaparivahaṇa	3
Mineralogy, jewels, metals	2
ājyatantra	2
Sleeping	2
Nature poetry	2
Astrology	2
weapons, arms	2
spoons	2
avāntaradīkṣā	2
Saṃjñā and Vivasvant	2
udvahana, bringing the bride to her new home	2
ukhā	2
sthapatisava	2
cāndrāyaṇa	2
gosava	2
putting to sleep	2
somakrayaṇī	2
āpyāyana (soma)	2
camasonnayana	2
Mīmāṃsā	2
sūtasava	2
vāstuśamana	2
nāndīmukha	2
ātithyeṣṭi	2
Ordeal	2
pushing forwards the droṇakalaśa	2
droṇakalaśa	2
Inheritance, heritage, heirs	2
agnīṣomīya	2
saṃnyāsa	2
yajamānam iṣṭiṣu	2
paridhikarman	2
yajus verses	2
somapariṇayana	2
studying the mahānāmnīs	2
death of a sacrificer	2
vāṇa	2
Politics	2
dāna, giving	2
narrative literature	2
against kṛtyās	2
vānaprastha	2
meteor, ulkā	2
ṛc	2
images of gods move, laugh	2
salutation, greeting, abhivādana	2
against natural disasters	2
sadas	2
against wounds	2
introductory sacrifice, prāyaṇīya	2
pākayajña	2
nivid	2
agnihotrī	2
Parjanya, rain	2
for success in discussions	2
chastity	2
kṣatra and brahman	2
leprosy, kilāsa	2
sacrificial ground, place of sacrifice, devayajana	2
ahīna	2
playing dice	2
Vala myth	2
saṃpāta, sampāta	2
udayanīyā, udayanīyeṣṭi	2
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge	2
jātaka, avadāna	2
Tārkṣya	2
Paurṇāmāsī	2
Amāvāsyā	2
Vasiṣṭha	2
horses	2
Kāma	2
dvadaśāha	2
war drum	2
hunting	2
Noun derivation	2
Sarasvat	2
abhiṣeka	2
truth, satya, ṛta	2
riddle hymns	2
domestic sacrifice, gṛhyakarman	2
skin diseases	2
Geography	2
Bhaga	2
dikpālas, guardians of the quarters	2
upaniṣkramaṇa	2
dyāvāpṛthivī, heaven and earth	2
for luck in gambling	2
Architecture	2
Anumati	1
soṣyantīsavana	1
snātaka	1
śruti, Veda	1
svarga, heaven	1
Agni in the water	1
praise of Viṣṇu (namas)	1
gold	1
brāhmaṇacchaṃsin	1
Military science	1
vaiśvadeva, vaiśvadevaśastra	1
gṛhastha, householder	1
Property of Brahmins	1
pātnīvata	1
āgnimāruta	1
against sins, misdeeds	1
āghāra	1
Buddhism	1
tanūnaptra	1
Sāṃkhya	1
for hair, against palita etc.	1
Śrīvidyā	1
Tīrthas	1
somasava	1
Kaṃsa	1
Birth, childhood, and youth	1
against curses	1
Earth, bhūmi, pṛthivī	1
pṛthisava	1
Vācaspati	1
against jealousy	1
Vāstoṣpati	1
Dadhikrā(van)	1
indrastut	1
virāj	1
Alchemy	1
Aryaman	1
indramahotsava	1
Prajāpati	1
sadyaskrī	1
high position of Brahmins	1
usury, lending money	1
pediatrics, child diseases	1
children	1
Viśvakarman	1
Māndhātṛ	1
producing surā	1
avabhṛtha	1
kaukilī	1
bṛhatī	1
vasatīvarī	1
gṛhapraveśa	1
prāṇāyāma	1
Kṛṣṇa kills Naraka	1
aghamarṣaṇa	1
Crime	1
stepping on the stone	1
atyagniṣṭoma	1
fire sacrifice, offering ājya, homa, āhuti	1
worms, krimi, ghuṇa	1
Śunaḥśepa	1
son, advantage of having sons	1
brahmagavī	1
kuṣṭha	1
Cosmology	1
utsarga, leaving out days of a sacrifice	1
Trade	1
Poetology	1
kṣaya, rājayakṣman	1
medhājanana	1
diseases	1
Kṛṣṇa	1
Travel	1
Deities and cults	1
earthquake	1
patnīsaṃyāja	1
madhuparka	1
yajñopavīta, sacrificial cord	1
Logic	1
anvaṣṭakya	1
raurava	1
worship	1
pūjā	1
grahas	1
cremation ground, śmaśāna	1
has the hide of man	1
Giving, dāna	1
feeding Brāhmaṇas, brāhmaṇabhojana	1
Administration	1
Prophesy	1
against quarrel at home, in the family	1
eclipse	1
religious speculation, mystic	1
āśvina	1
Family	1
punishment for crime	1
anointing the animal, añjana	1
seasons	1
saṃsāra	1
cremation	1
vapāhoma	1
āgrahāyaṇī	1
Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī	1
mekhalābandhana	1
five mahāyajñas	1
Prajāpati creates the world	1
Theatre, nāṭyaśāstra	1
Vedic metres, prosody	1
uttaravedi	1
serpent worship, snake worship	1
Technique of Yoga	1
purification of gold	1
Creation of the world	1
āvāpa, insertion	1
for finding a husband	1
fable	1
Nyāya	1
Syntax	1
ucchiṣṭa, remainder of the sacrifice	1
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman	1
Peace and war	1
Behaviour, strīdharma	1

Nominal forms

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Word semantic annotations

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Concept	Notes	Count
towards	towards	46
ākāra	the letter ā	44
until	until	15
ā	the prefix or preposition ā	12
ā [suffix]	[gramm.] inflectional substitute element -ā	1
according to	dt. 'gem￤￟'	1
since	dt. 'seit'	1

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Collocations

Topic	n/total	CI
Aitareya-Āraṇyaka	45/10289	0.43736% ± 0.10734
Aitareyabrāhmaṇa	153/55716	0.27461% ± 0.03658
Amarakośa	3/11968
Arthaśāstra	26/20430	0.12726% ± 0.04116
Atharvaprāyaścittāni	13/7848	0.16565% ± 0.07574
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)	364/32876	1.10719% ± 0.09522
Atharvaveda (Śaunaka)	458/71286	0.64248% ± 0.04938
Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa	4/1888
Aṣṭasāhasrikā	1/43483
Aṣṭādhyāyī	63/15455	0.40764% ± 0.08457
Aṣṭāvakragīta	2/4573
Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā	1/107529
Baudhāyanadharmasūtra	34/14751	0.23049% ± 0.06515
Baudhāyanagṛhyasūtra	82/14999	0.5467% ± 0.09934
Baudhāyanaśrautasūtra	80/39201	0.20408% ± 0.03761
Bhallaṭaśataka	2/2810
Bhāgavatapurāṇa	6/77807
Bhāradvājagṛhyasūtra	31/11643	0.26625% ± 0.0788
Bhāradvājaśrautasūtra	120/22173	0.5412% ± 0.0813
Bhāratamañjarī	10/85669	0.01167% ± 0.00609
Buddhacarita	1/19081
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad	10/19008	0.05261% ± 0.02744
Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha	1/62205
Carakasaṃhitā	6/94932
Chāndogyopaniṣad	8/15885
Daśakumāracarita	3/35191
Devīkālottarāgama	1/1263
Divyāvadāna	1/67463
Drāhyāyaṇaśrautasūtra	32/10734	0.29812% ± 0.08683
Garuḍapurāṇa	23/75742	0.03037% ± 0.01045
Gautamadharmasūtra	5/5730
Gobhilagṛhyasūtra	23/7402	0.31073% ± 0.10674
Gopathabrāhmaṇa	37/30474	0.12141% ± 0.03291
Haribhaktivilāsa	6/28886
Harivaṃśa	6/85975
Harṣacarita	12/37509	0.03199% ± 0.01524
Haṃsasaṃdeśa	1/1631
Hiraṇyakeśigṛhyasūtra	23/10383	0.22152% ± 0.07613
Hiraṇyakeśiśrautasūtra	5/4546
Hitopadeśa	1/25043
Jaiminigṛhyasūtra	13/7115	0.18271% ± 0.08354
Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa	20/22377	0.08938% ± 0.03296
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa	79/53779	0.1469% ± 0.02725
Jaiminīyaśrautasūtra	9/4088
Kathāsaritsāgara	28/149332	0.01875% ± 0.00585
Kauśikasūtra	104/22835	0.45544% ± 0.07352
Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra	1/641
Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa	20/15339	0.13039% ± 0.04807
Kaṭhāraṇyaka	6/5965
Khādiragṛhyasūtra	9/3366
Kirātārjunīya	4/18440
Kokilasaṃdeśa	2/4640
Kumārasaṃbhava	5/10268
Kāmasūtra	1/18908
Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra	48/13366	0.35912% ± 0.08537
Kāvyālaṃkāra	1/5625
Kāśikāvṛtti	9/2875
Kāṭhakagṛhyasūtra	18/7333	0.24547% ± 0.09535
Kāṭhakasaṃhitā	26/41607	0.06249% ± 0.02021
Kūrmapurāṇa	1/81935
Kṛṣṇāmṛtamahārṇava	2/3304
Lalitavistara	1/25314
Mahābhārata	29/1148075	0.00253% ± 0.00077
Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā	106/72433	0.14634% ± 0.02344
Manusmṛti	4/37893
Muṇḍakopaniṣad	1/1303
Mānavagṛhyasūtra	9/7957
Mānavaśrautasūtra	29/3576	0.81096% ± 0.24747
Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya	2/16044
Mūlamadhyamakārikāḥ	1/6525
Mṛgendratantra	1/3330
Mṛgendraṭīkā	2/22436
Nirukta	6/3713
Nyāyasūtra	1/3396
Nāradasmṛti	1/13338
Nāṭyaśāstra	1/7849
Nāṭyaśāstravivṛti	1/2603
Paraśurāmakalpasūtra	1/1722
Parāśaradharmasaṃhitā	5/8183
Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa	28/29352	0.09539% ± 0.02973
Pañcārthabhāṣya	5/23418
Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra	21/8146	0.2578% ± 0.0927
Ratnaṭīkā	2/5445
Rājanighaṇṭu	1/50011
Rāmāyaṇa	1/261621
Saundarānanda	1/19014
Saṃvitsiddhi	1/3405
Suśrutasaṃhitā	5/146817
Sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa	21/5185	0.40501% ± 0.14553
Sāṃkhyakārikābhāṣya	1/9994
Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa	25/15064	0.16596% ± 0.05472
Taittirīyasaṃhitā	92/47976	0.19176% ± 0.03296
Taittirīyopaniṣad	1/2466
Taittirīyāraṇyaka	6/6965
Tantrāloka	13/41322	0.03146% ± 0.01439
Vaikhānasadharmasūtra	3/5214
Vaikhānasagṛhyasūtra	26/8189	0.3175% ± 0.10258
Vaikhānasaśrautasūtra	42/26811	0.15665% ± 0.03985
Vaitānasūtra	51/9429	0.54088% ± 0.12463
Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra	13/10010	0.12987% ± 0.05939
Viṣṇupurāṇa	14/87630	0.01598% ± 0.00704
Viṣṇusmṛti	4/19323
Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (Mādhyandina)	62/15733	0.39408% ± 0.08242
Vārāhagṛhyasūtra	6/4830
Vārāhaśrautasūtra	67/25108	0.26685% ± 0.05372
Vātūlanāthasūtravṛtti	1/2062
Yogasūtrabhāṣya	7/10012
Yājñavalkyasmṛti	4/14284
Āpastambadharmasūtra	23/9296	0.24742% ± 0.08502
Āpastambagṛhyasūtra	8/3167
Āpastambaśrautasūtra	82/36641	0.22379% ± 0.04073
Āyurvedadīpikā	2/38956
Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra	23/7095	0.32417% ± 0.11135
Āśvālāyanaśrautasūtra	52/6246	0.83253% ± 0.1897
Śatakatraya	2/8703
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa	155/144199	0.10749% ± 0.01424
Śvetāśvataropaniṣad	1/2168
Śyainikaśāstra	3/5276
Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra	40/8254	0.48461% ± 0.12612
Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra	119/20880	0.56992% ± 0.08596
Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka	9/12763
Ṛgveda	2402/170960	1.40501% ± 0.04697
Ṛgvedakhilāni	67/7524	0.89048% ± 0.1787
Ṛgvidhāna	2/778
Ṣaḍviṃśabrāhmaṇa	8/7540